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Halliburton carried out a cementing operation on the Deepwater Horizon rig 20 hours before the accident.

The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.

2.BP’s prepared testimony briefing notes that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without their knowledge sometime before the explosion.

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A docu-film called GASLAND tells of the nationwide [ US] Hydraulic-fracturing gas-from-shale drilling business. Most have never heard of it let alone the 546 chemicals + water pumped into the underground water system.

One clip - as the filmaker tours the US comes from Louisiana. A lady explains that many rigs [ comparatively small compared to oil rigs] were hit by Katrina and implied that Louisiana got well polluted back then.

The original theory that North Korea torpedoed (or used other nefarious, insidious, means) to decimate the Deepwater rig rings far more true now that military exercises are suddenly underway over there with such a show of force. Intriguing that the only place that these wargames are not being overly reported is in the USA where 33% of daily state wide news is apparently still about the oil spill ramifications and BP and not the hairline proximity to nuclear war. Sabotaging the rig means to N. Korea that S. Korea suffers as BP and the rig owners have huge interests there, and the US suffers as BP employs more US people than British and is a huge employer of South Koreans. To the sabre rattling North Koreans sabotaging a rig in US waters also covertly brings the US to HAVE to respond/engage. This ratchets up the tensions between all nations and increases the possibility of Russia, China joining up with N. Korea against Japan, USA and S. Korea i.e., worst case scenario we have all the ingredients in place for a World war.

Nothing is ever what it seems. Tony Hayward leaving right now is a probably a smokescreen, burying the real news.